• Patent Title: Translation lookaside buffer invalidation
  • Application No.: US17753345
    Application Date: 2020-08-26
  • Publication No.: US11934320B2
    Publication Date: 2024-03-19
  • Inventor: Andrew Brookfield Swaine
  • Applicant: Arm Limited
  • Applicant Address: GB Cambridge
  • Assignee: Arm Limited
  • Current Assignee: Arm Limited
  • Current Assignee Address: GB Cambridge
  • Agency: NIXON & VANDERHYE P.C.
  • Priority: GB 13044 2019.09.10
  • International Application: PCT/GB2020/052042 2020.08.26
  • International Announcement: WO2021/048523A 2021.03.18
  • Date entered country: 2022-02-28
  • Main IPC: G06F12/1027
  • IPC: G06F12/1027
Translation lookaside buffer invalidation
Abstract:
A type of translation lookaside buffer (TLB) invalidation instruction is described which specifically targets a first type of TLB which stores combined stage-1-and-2 entries which depend on both stage 1 translation data and the stage 2 translation data, and which is configured to ignore a TLB invalidation command which invalidates based on a first set of one or more invalidation conditions including an address-based invalidation condition depending on matching of intermediate address. A second type of TLB other than the first type ignores the invalidation command triggered by the first type of TLB invalidation instruction. This approach helps to limit the performance impact of stage 2 invalidations in systems supporting a combined stage-1-and-2 TLB which cannot invalidate by intermediate address.
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